OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 23 shown for “Mount Carmel Baptist Church, American, founded 1876” — 56 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 16:50 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
The Spanish Singer, by Edouard Manet

The Spanish Singer

Edouard Manet · 1860

Public domainThe Met
The Mount Carmel Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 83, by Mount Carmel Baptist Church, American, founded 1876

The Mount Carmel Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 83

Mount Carmel Baptist Church, American, founded 1876 · May 22, 1932

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, by Edgar Degas

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas · ca. 1874

Public domainThe Met
Flier for a Mount Olive Baptist Church rally, by Unidentified

Flier for a Mount Olive Baptist Church rally

Unidentified · 1926

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Public domainThe Met
Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign, by Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church Sign

Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Forest in Winter at Sunset, by Théodore Rousseau

The Forest in Winter at Sunset

Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Public domainThe Met
Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago, by National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895

Form letter for National Baptist Convention in Chicago

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., American, founded 1895 · 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis, by Federico Barocci

Saint Francis

Federico Barocci · ca. 1600–1604

Public domainThe Met
Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

Shotgun shell found outside the16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

Artist not stated in the record · September 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Ten shards of stained glass, by Unidentified

Ten shards of stained glass

Unidentified · September 1963

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon's chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard, by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard

Correggio (Antonio Allegri) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
Deacon's chair from Spruce Street Baptist Church, Nashville, by Unidentified

Deacon's chair from Spruce Street Baptist Church, Nashville

Unidentified · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, by Unidentified

Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church

Unidentified · April 9, 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elijah in the Fiery Chariot, by Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs

Elijah in the Fiery Chariot

Master of the Barbarigo Reliefs · ca. 1520

Public domainThe Met
Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church, by Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950

Ceramic plate commemorating the Centennial of the 16th Street Baptist Church

Kettlesprings Kilns, American, founded 1950 · 1973

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Vision of Saint John, by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

The Vision of Saint John

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) · ca. 1608–14

Public domainThe Met
Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914

Deacon’s chair used by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austrian, 1849 - 1914 · ca. 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Salvator Mundi, by Albrecht Dürer

Salvator Mundi

Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1505

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 16 matched · 16 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1117647 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-06 16:50 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.